Tissue culture in science and society
Subtitle: the public life of a biological technique in twentieth century Britain
By: Duncan Wilson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780230284272
Subjects: Experimental Embryology; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; Tissue culture; Cell culture; HISTORY / Social History; Human Embryology; History
Description: "This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as "tissue culture." It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates surrounding research on human and animal tissue"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Figures; title: Abbreviations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 'Make Dry Bones Live': Tissue Culture at the Cambridge Research Hospital; title: 'Could You Love a Chemical Baby?' Organ Culture in Interwar Britain; title: Converting Human Material into Tissue Culture, c.1910-70; title: 'A Cell is Not an Animal': Negotiating Species in the 1960s and 1970s; title: Nobody's Thing? Consent, Ownership and the Politics of Tissue Culture; title: Epilogue: Tissues in Culture; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.